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Scrapbook.com is celebrating National Craft Month, and their Huge Die Cutting Sale is happening now! Save 20% to 50% on all your Die Cutting needs from machines to dies and more! These low prices are good through Monday, March 23rd at midnight MST. I've placed a store logo on the front page of my blog, just down below my profile that takes you directly to their store!
*Re-Design, Rina K, Gina K, Lawn Fawn, My Sweet Petunia (MISTI), and Scrapbook.com 'Handmade Essentials' Stamp Set (SKU sbc-ds19-7) are excluded from all discounts and promotions.
Today's card project uses scraps leftover from some of my past cards. I got this idea from a past video from Jennifer McGuire. For today's card, I will be using alcohol ink scraps. I will be using a die inlay technique to use up some of my scraps. There will be a minimal amount of ink blending, just enough to add a little shading to the background and creating a slight highlight for the sentiment. For this, I will be using regular Distress Ink. I love ink blending on colored cardstock, it adds depth and can create highlighted areas. All of the products used on today's card are from Scrapbook.com. Let's get started!!
All of my work will be done on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.
To start, I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" panel out of Mermaid Cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer. Next, I take my Blender Brush and blend Tumbled Glass Distress Ink around the center area of my panel, leaving the very center untouched where I will later stamp my sentiment. To add a darker contrast, I blend Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to the corners and edges of the panel.
Next, using my MISTI Stamp Postioner, I stamp a sentiment from the Heartfelt Stamp Set with Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink.
Taking my Leafy Branch Die, and Neenah White Cardstock, I run through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine and cut out eight branches. I choose a few pieces of my alcohol ink scraps to die cut. I take them and the same die, and run through my Big Shot. I cut out four branches, keeping the pieces intact. *Keeping the pieces intact will make it much easier to match up for the inlay process.
Using Liquid Glue, I double stack and adhere the white dies together so that I now have four. I lay them onto my blended panel around the sentiment to see where I want them mounted. Using Liquid Glue, I adhere them down onto my panel.
One by one, I start my die inlay process. Using Liquid Glue, I add a little to one leaf at a time and inlay the coordinating alcohol ink piece and press into the die. I repeat this process until all leaves are filled.
I then use my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer and trim off all overhang. Next, I mount onto a white card base using Double Sided Tape, add a few Water Droplets using Liquid Glue, and this completes my card.
I hope you found some useful tips in today's card project. Anytime you have excess pieces leftover from a card, save them for future cards. You can see with this die, even small scraps would work. This is a great die to use with this technique. Any die with open areas would work.
***The water droplets I use on my cards have been very popular! I believe they should be back in stock any day now. BUT, I did just notice, and I do not have (yet)... they now have Heart Shaped Water Droplets!! AND, they are in stock! They come in three different sizes, or a mix. I hope to get my hands on some for myself soon! Anytime a product is out of stock, click on the "notify me" button on the product page and the store will email you when the product is back in stock.
If this is the first time visiting my blog, welcome and I hope you return. If you are a returning visitor, thank you so much for your support!
Should you have any questions or comments please leave them in the comments section. I'd love to hear from you and what you thought about today's card.
If you would like to be notified by email each time I post something new to my blog, you can click on the subscribe button at the top of the page.
Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back soon!
Happy Stamping!!
Jeannie
Scrapbook.com is celebrating National Craft Month, and their Huge Die Cutting Sale is happening now! Save 20% to 50% on all your Die Cutting needs from machines to dies and more! These low prices are good through Monday, March 23rd at midnight MST. I've placed a store logo on the front page of my blog, just down below my profile that takes you directly to their store!
*Re-Design, Rina K, Gina K, Lawn Fawn, My Sweet Petunia (MISTI), and Scrapbook.com 'Handmade Essentials' Stamp Set (SKU sbc-ds19-7) are excluded from all discounts and promotions.
Today's card project uses scraps leftover from some of my past cards. I got this idea from a past video from Jennifer McGuire. For today's card, I will be using alcohol ink scraps. I will be using a die inlay technique to use up some of my scraps. There will be a minimal amount of ink blending, just enough to add a little shading to the background and creating a slight highlight for the sentiment. For this, I will be using regular Distress Ink. I love ink blending on colored cardstock, it adds depth and can create highlighted areas. All of the products used on today's card are from Scrapbook.com. Let's get started!!
All of my work will be done on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.
To start, I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" panel out of Mermaid Cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer. Next, I take my Blender Brush and blend Tumbled Glass Distress Ink around the center area of my panel, leaving the very center untouched where I will later stamp my sentiment. To add a darker contrast, I blend Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to the corners and edges of the panel.
Next, using my MISTI Stamp Postioner, I stamp a sentiment from the Heartfelt Stamp Set with Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink.
Taking my Leafy Branch Die, and Neenah White Cardstock, I run through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine and cut out eight branches. I choose a few pieces of my alcohol ink scraps to die cut. I take them and the same die, and run through my Big Shot. I cut out four branches, keeping the pieces intact. *Keeping the pieces intact will make it much easier to match up for the inlay process.
Using Liquid Glue, I double stack and adhere the white dies together so that I now have four. I lay them onto my blended panel around the sentiment to see where I want them mounted. Using Liquid Glue, I adhere them down onto my panel.
One by one, I start my die inlay process. Using Liquid Glue, I add a little to one leaf at a time and inlay the coordinating alcohol ink piece and press into the die. I repeat this process until all leaves are filled.
I then use my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer and trim off all overhang. Next, I mount onto a white card base using Double Sided Tape, add a few Water Droplets using Liquid Glue, and this completes my card.
I hope you found some useful tips in today's card project. Anytime you have excess pieces leftover from a card, save them for future cards. You can see with this die, even small scraps would work. This is a great die to use with this technique. Any die with open areas would work.
***The water droplets I use on my cards have been very popular! I believe they should be back in stock any day now. BUT, I did just notice, and I do not have (yet)... they now have Heart Shaped Water Droplets!! AND, they are in stock! They come in three different sizes, or a mix. I hope to get my hands on some for myself soon! Anytime a product is out of stock, click on the "notify me" button on the product page and the store will email you when the product is back in stock.
If this is the first time visiting my blog, welcome and I hope you return. If you are a returning visitor, thank you so much for your support!
Should you have any questions or comments please leave them in the comments section. I'd love to hear from you and what you thought about today's card.
If you would like to be notified by email each time I post something new to my blog, you can click on the subscribe button at the top of the page.
Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back soon!
Happy Stamping!!
Jeannie
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